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Axed Western Cape detective head, Major-General Jeremy Vearey, has spoken about ’tribalism and ethnonationalism’ in the SAPS that was affecting top coloured officers from receiving certain posts.
Yunus Mohamed, Gallo Images, Die Son Axed top cop Jeremy Vearey has vowed to support his brothers in arms – Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) boss Andre Lincoln and former Crime Intelligence chief Peter Jacobs – whose jobs are on the line. "I am still committed to the assistance of Lincoln and Jacobs, despite the fact that my dismissal is an attempt to sabotage that relationship as I will not be able to represent them [in their disciplinary woes] as an employee," he said. Vearey faced misconduct charges over a series of Facebook posts, in which he was accused of tarnishing ...
“As much as I loved my work as a journalist, law school was always in the back of my mind,” says Jacobs. “In all my positions, I kept encountering legal problems and questions that caught my attention and made me want to learn more—from due process concerns with campus sexual misconduct cases to the implications of major breaking Supreme Court decisions to war powers’ worries about international conflicts.” The protests surrounding the murder of George Floyd last summer inspired Jacob’s Comment in the Journal. “It became clear early on in the coverage of the George Floyd prote...
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Jeremy Veareyâs axing once again emphasises the rot within SAPS By Editorial Share The dismissal of the Western Capeâs head of detectives, Jeremy Vearey, has once again emphasised the rot that exists within the SAPS. Vearey, a former uMkhonto weSizwe guerrilla who was imprisoned on Robben Island, became one of Nelson Mandelaâs bodyguards and was integrated into the National Intelligence Agency, the predecessor to the State Security Agency, in 1994. In 1996 he joined the SAPS where he was forced to work alongside some of the police officers who had hounded him in the 1980s. His...